Keeping A Pulse On The Classroom

Teaching students to communicate effectively is very important to my classroom. Hence the reason my students blog so often. The problem for me in the past has been keeping up with everyone's blog for grading and pleasure. Well, I found this great tool that is already in massive use for news related stories, but I figured I could use to compile all my student blogs with. 

Pulse News.  Pulse takes your everyday favorite websites and compiles them into a rich interactive collage of sites that you can easily access. Once you use the easy set template provided, any site that you rss will automatically come to you in this beautiful design. So, I simply put in the addresses of all my student's blogs and voila! As soon as a blogging assignment is complete, it come right to me. No more searching to see who is done. Cool huh! The best part about it is I can do this all from my iPad or iPhone or an Android based phone. Grading on the go! I can then email the student their grade directly from the app. If one of my students writes a particularly fabulous post, I can tweet the link to the class or post the link on our community FaceBook page. Making bragging on the students to the your following public simplelicious. (As one of my students puts it.)